Tomlinson's Dairies Limited (03882919): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2019-10-14
- Administrators
- Peter David Dickens, Alison Grant
- Administrators' firm
- PwC
- Formerly
- Liftover Limited
- Incorporated
- 1999-11-25
- Location
- Leeds
- Industry
- 10511 Liquid milk and cream production
Why it went into administration
- Loss of a key customer, supplier or contract
- Sustained trading losses
- Cash flow / liquidity pressure
- Weak consumer demand
- Energy costs
- Competition / price pressure
From the administrators' statement
The Company was established in 1983 and subsequently incorporated as a limited company on 25 November 1999 by John and Philip Tomlinson, who remain the majority shareholders and directors. The Company does not have any subsidiaries and is a standalone entity.
The Company’s principal trading activities consisted of the processing and packing of Welsh, British and Organic milk and dairy products to multiple sectors across the market. The Company operated from a dairy facility near Wrexham, Wales and also had a nearby storage facility and bottling plant. The Company traded from three premises in Wrexham and employed 331 people at the date of the administrators’ appointment.
In 2017, Tomlinson’s was a c.£50m turnover dairy company. It processed c.100ml of milk annually, ¢.65% of that volume for its local and regional public sector, wholesale, food service and corner shop customers and, since 2013, the remaining c.35ml for major UK retailers, growing to 50m1 annually by 2019. A summary of the Company’s financials for the last four years ending 31 March is set out below:
Administrators' statement of proposals (2019-12-12) · Companies House register